| Icelandic Sheepdogs Our Kennel Proudly breeds to the FCI (DIF) CKC Breed Standard, this standard is the one used in all FCI countrys and is the same word for word in Canada at the CKC. Only the ISAA and the AKC at this time have a different Standard, and while our dogs certainly meet their Standard, we are honored to be breeding to the standard given to us by the mother country of our breed "Iceland" We are thrilled to be breeding both Short and Long Coat Icelandic Sheepdogs In the Icelandic Sheepdog Breed, the Long Coat is Recessive, so two long coated Icelandic Sheepdogs will have litters of all Long coats. I regret to say that some breeders in different country's mainly only breed Long coats, this is such a sad thing as the short coats are so much easier to keep in terms of Grooming, but I will admit that its much easier to hide structure faults in long coated dogs, also the long coated puppies are cute teddy bears and so they sell better. If you want to show med coated Icelandic Sheepdogs, (which I do), you need to have wonderful structure. All my short coated Icelandic Sheepdogs carry the long coat, and so all my litters have a mix of coat types. In terms of Coat Colors, I am breeding for Dark Reds, Dark Chincilla's, and Black an Silver Tricolors. I do have the rare possablity of Leveit, but have yet to have one born. I do not breed Chocolate Icelandic Sheepdogs, I have not choosen to add this color to my kennel as I personally have concerns about certain health issues that seem to be coming with the color in our breed, so until more is known, I will choose to not breed with this color at this time. Also the Chocolate gene lightens the eye color on their non-chocolate Offspring, and I have wonderful dark brown eye color in my lines to date and want to keep it that way. In terms of White Pattern, as in all things I follow the standard in this regards, I always breed for some degree of white markings- It can be as low as a few white socks, to as high as patches of the color on the body, as long as the color is at least covering 50% of the body, I never knownly breed to produce Extreme Whites as this color pattern in the Icelandic Sheepdog as in so many breeds leads to deafness in a percentage of the puppies that are produced. Ideally my Icelandic Sheepdogs have white sock of different heights, Collars, Blazes or split faces, white tail tips etc. We have worked hard over the years to import Top Bloodlines from Iceland an Europe. We are also thrilled to work with bloodlines from Pineridge Icelandic Kennel in B.C. and Belglen Kennel in Sask. We have also used imported Icelandic Studs living in the United States, and will continue to use Studs from across N.A. if we feel that it will help our breeding programs. At this time, we are currently working three Different Bloodlines, and family groups in our kennel, while we strive to create and breed sound type and structure with good temperment in all our litters. The Gene pool is small within our breed and because we were able to bring in some rare bloodlines, we are working different imported lines in the way we feel is best for each family pool. We are thrilled to now be on our Second, Third or Fourth Canadian Generation depending on what line you are looking at. I have been very lucky to have some amazing foundation dogs Pineridgeicelandic Vaskur Tofra Tobba Traustidottir Folda CGN HI TPOC Tofra Dalla Hecktordottir Ch Belglen Runa of Greenstone Our goals are breeding Icelandic Sheepdogs that meet the FCI - CKC breed Standard, Sound Structure, Stunning Breed Type, Good health and a Winning and WONDERFUL temperment. I have been Blessed in being able to travel to Europe to meet many more dogs in person then most Icelandic Sheepdog Breeders in N.A. have, because of this I feel that I have a good understanding that you must look to the international community for breed mentors. I am honored to have long term Icelandic Sheepdog Breeder mentors in both Iceland and Europe. |
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